IDEA 1: YOKAI Interface Image:DeeVid AI Agent
Concept: ENG:
Traditionally in Japan, yokai have been described as presences that emerge when the boundaries between natural phenomena, humans, animals, objects, and places begin to waver. The uncanny is not something that is always “there,” but rather an emergence that occurs when a person, a place, and a set of conditions rarely align. The human body is not only a microclimate that emits heat, humidity, breath, and volatile compounds, but also carries an individual-specific microbiome. Therefore, the presence of a person in a place does not merely interfere temporarily with its local ecology; it also leaves an accumulating trace of microbial relations. Yokai Interface imagines a site in which such invisible accumulations of relation rise, at certain moments, into uncanny presence.
